The express VI "Display Message to User" has an enable terminal. I'm not sure if it should be a substitute for the regular message box in cases where you want the enable terminal or if the regular message box should be modified to be more consistant with the express VI behavior.
I am currently formulating my pitch. Clearly it's not a home run if it needs one in the first place, and I am left re-evaluating all the instances where I use my optional dialog VIs.
I suppose it's not enough to say that often times I want a message to pop up only if a particular boolean is true or only if it is false. Before I made the optional dialog VIs I would drop a case statement down just to put the dialog VI in. I found myself doing that a lot and sometimes taking up a lot of space with 3 or 4 of them all right next to one another. -Greg
I never used the Display Message to User express VI, but the enable/disable feature of it is exactly what I think would be useful in the regular dialog VIs.
Dennis, I didn't realize until just a minute ago that the Express VIs can be viewed as regular sized icons, and that the Display Message to User Express VI then is nearly identical to the optional dialog VIs that I put together. (With the exception that mine has an additional boolean output for the Two Button Optional Dialog that is equal to Response_AND_MessageShown?.)
Here is an instance where I use my Two Button Optional Dialog...
